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Ulrike Schaede, Show Me the Money: Japan's Most Profitable Companies and the Global Supply Chain
| Location: | Japan |
| Lecture Date: | 2011-09-20 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-09-14 |
| Announcement ID: |
187990 |
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Professor Ulrike Schaede, UCSD; talk at University of Tokyo's
Contemporary Japan Group, September 20, 2011, 6:30 p.m. at Shaken main building (NOT at Akamon General Research Building this month)
The most interesting Japanese companies are no longer
those that mass-produce high-quality consumer end
products. In their stead, leadership in technology and
success in terms of profitability have shifted to
companies that excel in input components and materials,
but many of these companies are unknown. Schaede
introduces comparative data on profitability between
the US and Japan for the 2000s, and explores the most
profitable firms in Japan. Interviews with these
companies lead to an identification of their strategy
and management practices. These stand in stark contrast
with Old Japan management approaches. A better
understanding of New Japan companies is necessary to
grasp Japan's important role in the global supply chain
of many high-tech products.
Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the
School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
(IR/PS), at the University of California San Diego.
Areas of expertise include Japan's corporate strategy,
government-business relationships, antitrust and
financial markets. Her current research projects
concern the strategic repositioning of Japanese
companies to assume leadership in 21st century
technologies, corporate restructuring, changing human
resource practices and entrepreneurship in Japan. Her
latest book Choose and Focus: Japanese Business
Strategies for the 21st Century (Cornell UP, 2008)
argues that Japan's business organization has undergone
a strategic inflection point so fundamental that our
existing knowledge of Japanese business practices is no
longer adequate for a full understanding of Japan.
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